[kepler-dev] [Ptolemy] "Look Inside" changed to "Open Actor"

[James Yeh]

In the Eclipse debugger, what is the command to "step inside" when you're at
a breakpoint?  In the environment I use at work, it's F11, so if Eclipse and
other development environments use F11 as well, maybe it's a logical
corollary?  Do all keyboards have F11?

Just my two cents.

James

On 12/12/05, Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Yah, I figure it that it would be a problem.
>
> Firefox, IE and MS Word all have Control-O as File Open.
>
> I see several options with minus and pluses:
>
> 1) Stick with Control-O as the shortcut for "Open Actor"
>    - Annoy all users used to lots of Windows Apps
>    + Convenient and Mnemonic
> 2) Go back to Control-L
>    - Not Mnemonic, but makes a good trivia question
>    + Does not break users used to lots of Windows Apps
>    + Edward and I don't have to learn a new shortcut
> 3) Choose another key, such as Control-A
>    -/+ Sort of Mnemonic
>    - Conflicts with Select All
>
> For now, I'll roll back to Control-L.
> I think this might be why we stuck with Look Inside.
>
> Comments?
>
> _Christopher
>
> --------
>
>
>
>     Control-O is already bound to "Open File", so I think this change
>     will break that... Using Control-O for open file is pretty common
>     in Windows programs...
>
>     Edward
>
>     At 07:00 PM 12/12/2005 -0800, Christopher Brooks wrote:
>     >The Kepler group asked that "Look Inside" be changed to "Open Actor".
>     >[Personally, I was opting for "Open Sesame" ]
>     >
>     >http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2110
>     >
>     >I went ahead and made this change to
>     >   ptolemy/vergil/actor/ActorController.java
>     >I also modified the short cut so that Control-O now opens the
>     >actor instead of Control-L.  If there is great hue and cry, I suppose
>     >we could have both Control-O and Control-L but I don't see how to do
>     >this.
>     >
>     >ActorController has a protected variable named _lookInsideAction
> which
>     >I did not rename so as to preserve backward compatibility with
>     >subclasses of this class.
>     >
>     >I updated a few demos as well.
>     >
>     >These classes:
>     >   ptolemy/chic/ChicController.java
>     >   ptolemy/vergil/fsm/TransitionController.java
>     >   ptolemy/vergil/fsm/StateController.java
>     >all still have "Look Inside" because the "Look Inside" action looks
>     >inside a Chic node or a transition or a state, which are all not
>     >actors.  Thus "Open Actor" does not make much sense in for those
>     >classes.  If someone has a strong opinion, I could change them as
>     >well.
>     >
>     >Once the dust settles, I'll make a pass through the docs and fix up
>     >references to "Look Inside".
>     >
>     >_Christopher
>     >
>     >
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